{"id":1903,"date":"2019-01-23T17:18:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T09:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2019-01-23T17:18:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T09:18:25","slug":"rising-temperatures-may-safeguard-crop-nutrition-climate-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/01\/23\/rising-temperatures-may-safeguard-crop-nutrition-climate-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising temperatures may safeguard crop nutrition as climate changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Recent research has shown that rising carbon dioxide levels will likely boost yields, but at the cost of nutrition. A new study in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/tpj.14166\"><em>Plant Journal<\/em><\/a>\u00a0from the University of Illinois, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), and Donald Danforth Plant Science Center suggests that this is an incomplete picture of the complex environmental interactions that will affect crops in the future\u2014and rising temperatures may actually benefit nutrition but at the expense of lower yields.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/img.agropages.com\/UserFiles\/FCKFile\/zkc_2019-01-23_07-53-56_433.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/div>\n<div><em>Soybeans grow under heaters used to mimic futuristic conditions. Their seeds suggest that rising temperatures may actually improve nutrition but decrease yields, according to a new study.Soybeans grow under heaters used to mimic futuristic conditions. Their seeds suggest that rising temperatures may actually improve nutrition but decrease yields, according to a new study.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Two years of field trials show that increasing temperatures by about 3 degrees Celcius may help preserve seed quality, offsetting the effects of carbon dioxide that make food less nutritious. In soybeans, elevated carbon dioxide levels decreased the amount of iron and zinc in the seed by about 8 to 9 percent, but increased temperatures had the opposite effect.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIron and zinc are essential for both plant and human health,\u201d said Ivan Baxter, a principal investigator at the Danforth Center. \u201cPlants have multiple processes that affect the accumulation of these elements in the seeds, and environmental factors can influence these processes in different ways, making it very hard to predict how our changing climate will affect our food.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThis study shows that a trade-off between optimizing yields for global change and seed nutritional quality may exist,\u201d said co-principal investigator Carl Bernacchi, a scientist at the USDA-ARS, which funded the research along with the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The team tested the soybeans in real-world field conditions at the Soybean Free-Air Concentration Experiment (SoyFACE), an agricultural research facility at Illinois that is equipped to artificially increase carbon dioxide and temperature to futuristic levels.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIt\u2019s a very controlled way of altering the growing environment of crops in agronomically relevant situations where the plants are planted and managed exactly like other fields in the Midwestern United States,\u201d Bernacchi said, who is also an assistant professor of plant biology and crop sciences at Illinois\u2019 Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and a member of the Genomic Ecology of Global Change research theme and the Center for Advanced Bioenergy &amp; Bioproducts Innovation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Next, they plan to design experiments to figure out the mechanisms responsible for this effect.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"tl clearfix mt10\">\n<h4 class=\"p-source c-999 cb pt5\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a class=\"c-orange fs16\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.agropages.com\/Media\/MediaIndex-1331.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Illinois<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research has shown that rising carbon dioxide levels will likely boost yields, but at the cost of nutrition. 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